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Jellyfin External Drive
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Upgrade to docker when you can. It's not as hard as you think. And it's an extra skill. If you can handle Linux you can handle docker
Why is docker an upgrade?
Dependency hell
What kinda dependency hell? I’ve been running my jellying server with it installed via pacman for over year and never had any problems. I admit I’ve also not messed with docker much in general but I assumed that would be more annoying cuz it would have to be updated separately and such
Also you can spin up a new server side by side to test for issues without having to restore backups.
Try running two jellyfin containers side by side.
It's easy to setup permissions and what files it can access and you don't have to worry about an update making Jellyfin incompatible with your system. Might never be an issue and is a bit more work but it has perks.
As they said already. It's self contained, so you don't have a ton of extra packages in your system. When you upgrade your system, jellyfin works regardless
Primarily because it makes your setup easily repeated and able to be quickly stood up on new machine